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Heinrich Boll
German Writer
Born: Dec 21, 1917
Died: Jul 16, 1985
Because German Language Me Time Will
Related authors: Anne Frank Erich Auerbach Erich Maria Remarque Ludwig Borne Michael Ende Thomas Mann W. G. Sebald Walter Anderson
No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated. Heinrich Boll
Love Will Out Totally Poems Having No-One Know Joys Without Piled How Continent Been Up Confessions Turned Many Novels Ever Sufferings
On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France. Heinrich Boll
Met Rubble France Hundreds Visit Hiding Cologne Had Retreat Were Been Left Times Roman Heavy After Who Deep Many March Bombing
My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate. Heinrich Boll
Correspondence Would Marvel He Over Most Well Knows Passages German Just Anyone Sensitivity Interesting Certain Even Appreciate
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it. Heinrich Boll
You Humor Define Attain Ambiguous Very Really Hard Hardest Things
I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns. Heinrich Boll
Son Wife Born Cologne His December Sculptor Maria
As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house. Heinrich Boll
Wife Relatives Few Down Settled Destroyed Cologne Over Countryside House Return Accompanied Years December Where Evacuation Early
Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work. Heinrich Boll
Work Freelance Shifting Summer Address Statistics Postal Temporary Cologne Writer Between Employee Continually Fixed Bureau Place Worked Lived
For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little. Heinrich Boll
Me Language See Understand Least Sounds Hear German Very Than Unfortunately Which Little Much Swedish Stranger
Medals don't suit me. I'm not that kind of guy. Heinrich Boll
Me Kind Guy Medals Suit
I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me. Heinrich Boll
Me Army Liberate Will Prisoner Young Liberated Those Take Never Had Never Forget Hill Boy Coming Up Very Forget American Moment Who
The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible. Heinrich Boll
War Thought Believe Possible Responsible Person Any Planned Plans
Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union. Heinrich Boll
Life Dictatorship Own Like Soviet Soviet Union Literature Union Even

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